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Healthcare is my topic of choice I tough it would be interesting to find information on it. I saw the movie Sicko and tough it was very interesting and had c=some good stories on it. Then I started to think I just had some experiences in the healthcare system myself. I have never been in the hospital for anything other than some stitches years ago. But suddenly when I get out of school one day I have this pain in my stomach but I did not think much of it. Well my mom convinces me to go to the doctor to get check out. When I got there it took them about three seconds to determine what I had was appendicitis and I had to go to the hospital immediately. When I got to the hospital I was feeling ok but then they told me that they had to operate that same night. I spent two days in the hospital recovering from surgery and then I went home feeling like crap but what can you do. I was feeling well until my mom said you are not going to believe how much money the medical bill is. Well I was expecting it to be around a thousand or two at the most but I was completely wrong. The bill was for fifth teen thousand dollars for 2 days in the hospital with out the surgery. Even tough I was lucky and the plan covered it that is a lot of money for the amount of time that I stayed there. This is just one example of many others that are out there of the amount of money in this business.